re: An illegal immigrant gets a free kidney transplant....(Posted by LSUTIGER16 on 12/8/12 at 11:47 am to Chaos Six)

What say the OT? I say it's bull shite. He wants to know why can't you be treated the same? Ummmmm...maybe because you broke the law? Hence the word ILLEGAL immigrant. Health care is a right? So, who has the right to pay for your free health care---oh yeah, I do. You know, Mr. Taxpayer? I know, I'm racist, blah blah blah. "Your freedom to be free in this country includes my freedom to be free from you"--Andrew Wilkow.

re: An illegal immigrant gets a free kidney transplant....(Posted by Displaced on 12/8/12 at 11:49 am to white perch)

quote:Mariscal moved from Mexico to the U.S. when he was 1 year old. Now as a 24-year-old graphic-design student, he considers it his home.

He says he nearly returned to Mexico after doctors said he wouldn't be able to receive a kidney transplant in the U.S. because he is undocumented. He first went on dialysis after he experienced renal failure at age 16. As his condition worsened, he knew only a transplant would help him feel better.

re: An illegal immigrant gets a free kidney transplant....(Posted by Displaced on 12/8/12 at 11:54 am to Tigerholic)

quote:imagine if this dude got a kidney that you, your wife, husband, kid, etc needed, would you care then?

this kid is a student. it was not his choice to move here. blame his parents. should he be just left to die? it says he was on dialysis (sp) for like 10 years. this surgery must have been necessary to save his life.

re: An illegal immigrant gets a free kidney transplant....(Posted by Turbeauxdog on 12/8/12 at 12:16 pm to Displaced)

quote:this kid is a student. it was not his choice to move here. blame his parents. should he be just left to die? it says he was on dialysis (sp) for like 10 years. this surgery must have been necessary to save his life.

Someone is going to die because someone else didn't get that kidney.

The point is do you want us taxpayers to pay for illegal immigrants to get a kidney that could have went to a us taxpayer

re: An illegal immigrant gets a free kidney transplant....(Posted by Displaced on 12/8/12 at 12:20 pm to Turbeauxdog)

quote:The point is do you want us taxpayers to pay for illegal immigrants to get a kidney that could have went to a us taxpayer

how can you guarantee that the "us taxpayer" isn't a pedophile or a rapist? frick you for your holier than thou attitude. this kid does not deserve to die because his parents brought him to america as a baby.

re: An illegal immigrant gets a free kidney transplant....(Posted by sabes que on 12/8/12 at 12:26 pm to white perch)

i think this says more about how bad our current health care system sucks more than it does anything about illegal immigration, especially considering the guy has been living here ever since he can remember.

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re: An illegal immigrant gets a free kidney transplant....(Posted by white perch on 12/8/12 at 12:33 pm to Displaced)

quote:how can you guarantee that the "us taxpayer" isn't a pedophile or a rapist? frick you for your holier than thou attitude. this kid does not deserve to die because his parents brought him to america as a baby.

How do we know that this guy is a pedophile/rapist? Also, if his parents would have stayed in mexico, he would have most likely died from their poor medical care. He is going to die because he has bad kidneys, nobody's fault, that's just the hand he was dealt. But, America should not take care of the rest of the world's medical problems until she has taken care of her own.

re: An illegal immigrant gets a free kidney transplant....(Posted by Puffoluffagus on 12/8/12 at 12:36 pm to Gtiger9757)

quote: Message Posted by Gtiger9757 The kidney came from his own mother fwiw

Yup. And the procedure was probably performed by some resident for training purposes.

My guess is that loyola UMC will end up footing the bill for his medications as well though. It's hard to imagine a circumstance where they would transplant without a contingency plan in place for the medicine.